• In Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand and Nîmes, several hundred farmers demonstrated to demand that "products have a fair price".
  • A few days before the agricultural show, they asked to be able to "live decently", denouncing in particular the pressures of supermarkets.
  • Some delegations were received at the prefecture.

Between 150 and 200 farmers at the wheel of their tractors, trailers and cars converged Tuesday morning on the center of Lyon, conducting snail operations, to demand in particular a better remuneration. "We must be able to make a decent living from our trades, our products must have a fair price," says Jocelyn Dubost, president of the Young Farmers of the region.

The organizers decided to mark the occasion a few days before the opening of the Agricultural Show. Similar operations also took place in the cities of Clermont-Ferrand and Nîmes.

Liquid manure and vegetable waste

The demonstrators present in Lyon first gathered in front of the DREAL (Regional Directorate of the Environment, Planning and Housing), where they dumped some dumpsters of liquid manure and other vegetable waste, before heading to the prefecture, where again dumpsters were emptied nearby. The farmers' representatives were received at 14 p.m. by the regional prefect.

"We are forbidden ways of producing, without proposing any solution in front, we put total sectors at risk, such as cherries in our region," threatened by the Asian fly, laments Jocelyn Dubost. Edith Cabello, vegetable and fruit producer in the Ardèche, also came to express her frustration. "They take away the phytos [pesticides], I am a cherry grower, we will not be able to produce any more, they are inedible," she says.

Pressure of large surfaces

Crop insurance too expensive, problems of installation of young people, pressure of supermarkets ... "We can't make a living from our job. We have a strong social and fiscal pressure that is much too important, after having suffered a lot of climatic hazards, "lists the farmer.



In the Puy-de-Dôme, a dozen farmers have invested in a large area near Clermont to stick stickers "the large distribution is fattening, the farmer sells at a loss". "We sell half of our products at a loss. We arrive at home to buy cows, we are told it is such price or you keep them, we can not afford to keep our production, "concludes Julien Tixier, a young farmer of 25 years in mixed farming and breeding who works "70 hours a week for 800 euros".

  • Society
  • Farmers
  • Demonstration
  • Lyon
  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
  • Rhône-Alpes
  • Clermont-Ferrand
  • Nîmes
  • Occitania
  • Languedoc-Roussillon